Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0987599
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The Ontogeny of Pain Behaviour: A Novel Neuroimmune Pathway. In Australia, 20% of the population report suffering from chronic pain. The cost of pain to Australian business per year is over $3 billion. Attempts to explain many chronic pain states, based on current knowledge, have failed. The central hypothesis of this project is that pain sensitivity is determined by programming of the fetal immune system during pregnancy. This research proposal will determine whether exposure to infection early in life determines sensitivity to pain in adult life. In doing so, this research offers a new theoretical explanation for the ontogeny of pain and may begin to account for the many forms of chronic pain that are currently not only unexplainable from current pain theory, but difficult to manage clinically.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2010
End Date: 07-2013
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $150,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, | Psychology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Clinical health not specific to particular organs, diseases and conditions |
